FACTBOX-Five facts on new Czech central banker Hampl

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus picked former management board member and analyst Mojmir Hampl as a new member of the seven-seat central bank board on Monday.

The following are key facts on Hampl:

* Born March 3, 1975.

* Graduated in 2004 from University of Economics in Prague.

* Worked as an analyst at the Czech National Bank between 1998-2002; took scholarship at Britain's University of Surrey in 2001; senior analyst at Czech savings bank Ceska Sporitelna, a unit of Erste Bank <ERST.VI>, between 2002-2004; member of the management board at state-run bad debt vehicle Consolidation Agency (CKA) between 2004 and spring 2006.

* A right-wing economist; advocate of free market in many essays he wrote for think-tank papers and other publications.

* Klaus wrote a preface to Hampl's booklet published in 2004 on exploitation of natural resources, which argued that the invisible hand of the market serves better to allocating resources than state regulation.

(Compiled by Marek Petrus in Prague)

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